Yellow forehead - Gakuou

Japanese: 額黄 - がくおう
Yellow forehead - Gakuou
A makeup technique in which yellow powder is applied in a mountain shape to the forehead. A custom among women in the Six Dynasties period. Mount Yue. A poem by Emperor Jianwen of the Liang Dynasty (presented to a beautiful woman as a joke): They are at peace together, and the spatula on the back of the head is different.

See the entry for '額' in the kanji dictionary.

Source : Heibonsha "Popular version Jitsū" About the popular version Jitsū Information

Japanese:
ひたいに黄粉を山形にぬる化粧法。六朝期の婦女の風習。額山。梁・簡文帝〔戯れに麗人に贈る〕詩 同(とも)に安んず、鬟裏の撥(はつ)(髪へら) 異(こと)に作(な)す、額の

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